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December 15th 2004 • Printer version
News and Events of the University of Oregon School of Law
Life@Law: LOOKING AHEAD TO 2005
HIGHLIGHTS: ItÃs the holidays. YouÃre busy. But as you study for
finals, wait in line at the airport, or check your email in the middle
of family celebrations, take a look at whatÃs coming up this winter and
spring ...
January 5-8, 2005 BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING
30 hour basic mediation training focusing on communication, uncovering
disputants' interests and helping the participants find their own
solutions. Open to students and the public. Sponsored by the
Appropriate Dispute Resolution program. Cost is $175.00.
Preregistration required. INFO
January 5-8 SAN FRANCISCO: AALS Annual Meeting
Exhibits and registration at the Hilton San Francisco, 333 OÃFarrell
Street. On Thursday, law professor Michael Moffitt presents on
Streaming Video for Assessment in Negotiation Classes, and Steve
Bender participates in a panel on the Impact of the UCC on Real Estate
Transactions. Susan Gary is part of a panel discussing intestacy and
the issue of posthumously conceived children. Bender and law professor
Keith Aoki are also members of organizing committees for the
conference. INFO: www.aals.org/
Wednesday, January 5 ALUMNI RECEPTION
6:00 P.M, Hotel Nikko, Mendocino II Room, 222 Mason St., San Francisco.
Law school alumni and friends are invited to join Dean Laird
Kirkpatrick at an evening reception during the Association of American
Law Schools annual meeting. INFO: (541) 346-3970 or email law external relations.
Jan. 8 Feb. 4 MORSE CHAIR PROFESSOR: Hilary Charlesworth
Hilary Charlesworth directs the Centre for International and Public Law
at Australian National University in Canberra. She is the twenty-fourth
occupant of the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. INFO:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~morse/morsechairs.html
Monday, January 10 FIRST DAY OF SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES
Tuesday, January 11 DEDICATION: Many Nations Longhouse
Following a series of private ceremonies for Native groups, the public
dedication of the long-awaited longhouse behind the Knight Law Center
will take place on Tuesday, January 11 at 11:30 a.m., followed by a
salmon feast sponsored by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Law
professors Rennard Strickland and Mary Wood are interviewed about the
project in the December 6 Inside Oregon newsletter. STORY:
Rennard Strickland
Mary Wood
The longhouse story
Tuesday, January 11
PANEL: New Voices in International Law
4:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M., Room 175. Organized by law professor and Morse
Center Resident Scholar Ibrahim Gassama. Featuring Morse professor
Hilary Charlesworth, University of Texas law professor Karen Engle and
Ileana Porros, Boston College School of Law. INFO: (541) 346-3700.
Wednesday, January 12 Community Conversations: Marijuana
7:30 P.M., Dyment Lounge, Walton Complex across from Knight Law Center.
This discussion, part of an ongoing series for dorm residents and
community members, features criminal law professor and associate dean
Margie Paris as well as Eugene attorney Brian Michaels . Other
panelists are David McKula, drug and alcohol counselor, internist Alan
Cohn, Chris OÃNeill of WorkDrugFree, Kevin Lively from the Compassion
Center and moderator Dan Close, UO counseling services. INFO
Tuesday, January 18 Community Conversations: Political Satire
7:30 P.M., Dunn Lounge Hamilton complex. Political Satire:
The Daily Show and South Park" features law professor, artist and
musician Keith Aoki plus journalism professor Al Stavitsky, political scientist Eric
McGhee and UO students Abram Goodstein, Haley Dillan and Cate Dance.
INFO
Friday, January 21 VISITOR: Governor Ted Kulongoski
10:30 A.M. The governor will talk informally about public service
careers, tour the Knight Law Center, and meet with the faculty. INFO
Sunday, January 23 OPENING: UO Art Museum
11 A.M. 5:00 P.M. UOÃs art museum reopens with a new name after a
major remodel - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. INFO:
http://uoma.uoregon.edu
Thursday, January 20
CAREER SERVICES: Portland Interviews Kickoff
Noon, Room 141.
Tuesday, January 25
CAREER SERVICES: State Trial Court Clerkships
Noon, Room 141
Wednesday, January 26 LECTURE: The Missing Voice
7:30 P.M., Room 175. Morse Professor Hilary Charlesworth speaks on
women and the war in Iraq. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by
Wayne Morse Center. INFO: (541) 346-3700.
http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
Friday, January 28
PORTLAND: Alumni Mentoring Program Social
Networking for law students with Portland alumni and friends. (Time and place
TBA) INFO
Friday, February 11 OPENING: Natural History Museum
The law schoolÃs neighbor reopens with a major new exhibit of OregonÃs
human history and a new name - Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
History.
Saturday, February 12 SYMPOSIUM: Day of Remembrance
All day at the Knight Law Center. "Forging Links to Resist Racism and
Discrimination with lessons from the Japanese American internment
during WWII and Latino immigration in the new world order. INFO:
http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
Friday, February 25 OLSPIF AUCTION
6
P.M.-10 P.M. in the Wayne Morse Commons. Annual fundraiser and party for
Oregon Law Students Public Interest Fund, with legendary auctioneer,
Assistant Professor Tom Lininger. INFO
Friday, February 25 DEADLINE: Judges' Conference
The 2005 OÃConnell Conference for attorneys and judges takes
place at the law school on March 10. Deadline for registration is Friday, February
25. $50 cost includes lunch.MCLE
credit available. Contact Pamela Peake at Harrang, Long, Gary and
Rudnick. See March 10 listing. (541) 485-0220.
Monday, February 28 LECTURE: Rising Inequality
7:30 P.M., Room 175. University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith
speaks on "Rising Inequality: Facts and Consequences." He is a Morse
Center Distinguished Lecturer. Free and open to the public. Reception
follows. INFO: (541) 346-3700. http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
March 3-6 PIELC: Living As If Nature Mattered
Thursday, March 10 O'CONNELL CONFERENCE
Come Together: Judges, Attorneys Share the Stage
8:30 A.M. 4:15 P.M. Room 175 and Morse Commons. The annual OÃConnell
Conference for the Bench and Bar features a keynote by Jeffrey Fisher,
the 33-year-old Seattle attorney who won two U.S. Supreme Court cases
in a four-month period.
REGISTRATION: Register by February 25. Cost is
$50 (includes lunch). MCLE credit available. Contact Pamela Peake at
Harrang, Long, Gary and Rudnick (541) 485-0220.
Oral arguments at the law school. Sponsored by Legal Research and Writing program. INFO
March 21-25 SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 30 PRO BONO OPEN HOUSE
Noon, Room 141. INFO
March 31 - April 1 PATRIOT ACT CONFERENCE
Room 175. Begins 3 P.M. Thursday, All day Friday. Cosponsored by Wayne Morse Center http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
(541) 346-3700
Friday, April 1 OREGON LAW REVIEW BANQUET
6:00 P.M., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Guest speaker: Oregon
Supreme Court Justice Paul DeMuniz. INFO
Thursday, April 7 PRO BONO AWARDS
5:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M., Wayne Morse Commons INFO
Friday, April 15
MEETINGS: DEAN'S ADVISORY COUNCIL, ALUMNI BOARD
Both groups will meet in Portland before the Frohnmayer Award banquet.
INFO
Friday, April 15
BANQUET: FROHNMAYER AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
6:00 P.M. Reception, 7:00 P.M. Dinner. Embassy Suites Hotel, Portland. The fourth
annual public service award honors Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner
Ã57. From 1960s Mississippi to 21st century Alaska, he has defended the
poor and disenfranchised with energy and zeal. Aschenbrenner was
OregonÃs first public defender in the early 1960s, first director of
the Mississippi office of the LawyerÃs Committee for Civil Rights in
1968 and a partner in OregonÃs first public interest law firm in the
1970s. An expert in Indian law, he spent the last twenty years as head
of the Native American Rights Fund in Anchorage, Alaska. Lare
Aschenbrenner was born in Baker, Oregon and graduated from the law
school in 1957. The Frohnmayer Award is sponsored by the UO Law Alumni
Association. INFO
April 22 LAST DAY OF SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES
April 25-May 9 FINAL EXAMS
Sunday, May 15 COMMENCEMENT: Class of 2005
1:00 P.M., Hult Center, 6th and Willamette in downtown Eugene, followed
by a reception in the Commons. INFO
All events are free and open to the public at the Knight Law Center
(1515 Agate Street, Eugene), unless otherwise noted. Dates and times
are subject to change best to check the contact number or email just
to make sure.
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